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Paste is a lost metaphor? My kids cut and pasted for 20 mins today during craft time. The one time tangible spam is worth getting in the mail.
by Waterluvian 3y ago
Paste is a lost metaphor? My kids cut and pasted for 20 mins today during craft time. The one time tangible spam is worth getting in the mail.
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- maweki 3y agoI did a zipper merge yesterday and the cars then were in pairs, one from each lane. But as the author also printed a newline, it looks very different.
- TeMPOraL 3y ago> I did a zipper merge yesterday and the cars then were in pairs, one from each lane. Up until the point of zipping, when they suddenly became misaligned. The outcome of zipper merge isn't pairs of cars, glued by their side doors, going down a single lane. The outcome is cars from both input lanes interleaved, forming a 2x longer line on the output lane.
- Joker_vD 3y agoWait, you two are not actually talking about using SIMD instructions in a LISP implementation when working with several lists simultaneously, but about actual road transportation and vehicles instead?
- aidenn0 3y agoIt's lost in the sense that "paste" means something very different on a computer today than what the unix "paste" program does.
- jimbob45 3y agoIn fairness, pasting as a metaphor works very poorly for what Unix used it for.
- benj111 3y agoIn the days that these metaphors were designed, you would literally cut and paste documents to lay them out. So the metaphor is lost in the specific document creation sense. For early school projects I did the text in a word processor leaving holes for the pictures. My parents worked at a graphic design place so they had a scanner and colour printer to print prictures which were cut and pasted in.